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refrigeration
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun refrigeration has 2 senses
- refrigeration(n = noun.process) infrigidation - the process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes; Array is a kind of chilling, cooling, temperature reduction, preservation
- refrigeration(n = noun.act) Array - deliberately lowering the body's temperature for therapeutic purposes; "refrigeration by immersing the patient's body in a cold bath" is a kind of therapy
Derived forms verb refrigerate2, verb refrigerate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
refrigeration, n. [Cf. F. réfrigération, L. refrigeratio.].
The act or process of refrigerating or cooling, or the state of being cooled. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
refrigeration
anhydration, blast-freezing, bottling, brining, canning, corning, curing, dehydration, desiccation, dry-curing, drying, embalming, evaporation, freeze-drying, freezing, fuming, irradiation, jerking, marination, mummification, pickling, potting, quick-freezing, salting, seasoning, smoking, stuffing, taxidermy, tinningROGET THESAURUS
refrigeration
Physical Insensibility
N insensibility, physical insensibility, obtuseness, palsy, paralysis, paraesthesia, anaesthesia, sleep, hemiplegia, motor paralysis, vegetable state, coma, anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral, nitrous oxide, laughing gas, exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen, refrigeration, insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient, callous, thick- skinned, pachydermatous, hard, hardened, case hardened, proof, obtuse, dull, anaesthetic, comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.Refrigeration
N refrigeration, infrigidation, reduction of temperature, cooling, congelation, conglaciation, ice, solidification, ice box (refrigerator), extincteur, fire annihilator, amianth, amianthus, earth- flax, mountain-flax, flexible asbestos, fireman, fire brigade (incombustibility), incombustibility, incombustibleness, (insulation), air conditioning, central air conditioning, air conditioner, fan, attic fan, dehumidifier, cooled, frozen out, cooling, frigorific.
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